/prog/ - Crockford videos

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-11 17:17

Douglas Crockford (the guy who wrote the "Javascript: The Good Parts" book) has made a series of videos that cover 3 important topics.
1)Is javascript of course, he shows how to use it to its potential
2)Programming language history. If you are into programming language design, watch the first video, you will learn a lot of information you wont find anywhere.
3)Web Standards. He shows why html/css is broken beyond repair and should be replaced

Doug is on the javascript standards committee and he invented JSON which is an improvement of XML in javascript

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-11 17:17

and of course I would forget the link
http://yuiblog.com/crockford/

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-11 17:20

I saw those before. I'd take his stuff with a grain of salt. He thinks HTML5 is bad.

His book is also shit. It is too terse to be able to use it for anything useful. Javascript: The Definitive Guide from O'Reilly is far superior IMO.

Name: sage 2012-06-11 17:29

Who cares what he thinks

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-11 17:32

Valid HTML5/MathML.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">

  <head>

    <title>Example of MathML embedded in an HTML5 file</title>

    <meta charset="utf-8" />

  </head>

  <body>

    <h1>Example of MathML embedded in an HTML5 file</h1>

    <p>

      Given the quadratic equation

      <math>

        <mrow>

          <mi>a</mi>

          <mo>&InvisibleTimes;</mo>

          <msup>

            <mi>x</mi>

            <mn>2</mn>

          </msup>

          <mo>+</mo>

          <mi>b</mi>

          <mo>&InvisibleTimes;</mo>

          <mi>x</mi>

          <mo>+</mo>

          <mi>c</mi>

          <mo>=</mo>

          <mi>0</mi>

        </mrow>

      </math>

      , the roots are given by

      <math>

        <mrow>

          <mi>x</mi>

          <mo>=</mo>

          <mfrac>

            <mrow>

              <mo form="prefix">−</mo>

              <mi>b</mi>

              <mo>&PlusMinus;</mo>

              <msqrt>

                <msup>

                  <mi>b</mi>

                  <mn>2</mn>

                </msup>

                <mo>−</mo>

                <mn>4</mn>

                <mo>&InvisibleTimes;</mo>

                <mi>a</mi>

                <mo>&InvisibleTimes;</mo>

                <mi>c</mi>

              </msqrt>

            </mrow>

            <mrow>

              <mn>2</mn>

              <mo>&InvisibleTimes;</mo>

              <mi>a</mi>

            </mrow>

          </mfrac>

        </mrow>

      </math>

      .

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-11 17:54

>>3

preferring JavaScript, the Definitive Guide to JavaScript The Good Parts

That's practically the difference between a codemonkey and a decent theory versed programmer. The Definite Guide is practically totally replaceable by MDN and other resources. Douglas' book goes in theoretical detail over what to use and what to avoid and why and that's irreplaceable and much harder to find online.

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-11 18:54

>>6
Definitive Guide also covers the theoretical shit and best practices. Stay mad.

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